WHAT ARE WE GOING TO LEARN
IN FIFTH GRADE MUSIC THIS YEAR?

Click here for the Month by Month Calendar.
Click below for Youtube performances of music we will be learning.  All videos have been screened.
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SEPTEMBER Set up Listening Journals and Instrument Review
  
OCTOBER "Anitra's Dance" from
Peer Gynt by
Edvard Grieg		    
  Danse Macabre
by Camille Saint-Saens		    
NOVEMBER American Salute
by Morton Gould		    
  Appalachian Spring
by Aaron Copland		    
  "Anvil Chorus" from
Il Trovatore
by Giuseppe Verdi		    
DECEMBER New York Philharmonic
Principal Brass Quintet
plays holiday carols!		    
JANUARY 4th Movement from
New World Symphony
by Antonin Dvorak		    
  Give My Regards to Broadway
by George M. Cohan
(Medley from
Jimmy Durante Show 1959)		    
  "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
from The Lion King
by Elton John
Yes, I know it stops early.  :)   		   
  Michael Crawford
sings "The Music of the Night"
from Phantom of the Opera
by Andrew Lloyd Webber		    
FEBRUARY Backwater Blues
sung by Bessie Smith		    
  Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(Traditional Spiritual)
sung by Etta James		    
  "Roundeau" from
Symphonie de Fanfares
by Jean-Joseph Mouret		    
MARCH Canon in D
by Johann Pachelbel
played on original instruments
(baroque violin, baroque cello, baroque organ, and theorbo)
San Francisco Early Music Ensemble		    
 
"Ode to Joy"
from Symphony No. 9
by Ludwig von Beethoven
(an excerpt in German)		    
  John Williams (composer)
conducts The Imperial March
at The Hollywood Bowl
June 4, 2011		    
APRIL
Jazz
Appreciation
Month		 Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong perform
The Blues are Brewin'		    
  Harry Connick, Jr. performs
For Once in My Life		    
  Sarah Vaughan and
Wynton Marsalis perform
Autumn Leaves		    
MAY

Music from
other
countries
will be
added soon.		 The Pines of Rome
by Ottorino Respighi
from Fantasia 2000		  
JUNE The Spirit Moves in Me
by Judith Lang Zaimont		    
  And God Created
Great Whales
by Alan Hovaness
(music only)		    
       
       
       
       

 

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